Oct 19, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Stephen Parsons was a Congregationalist from Middletown, Connecticut. He was ordained into the ministry of that denomination in 1788, becoming one of the rising stars. During the next seven years his fame and influence grew. But then in 1795, after a careful study of...
Oct 19, 2017 | Wednesday
Some day when you’re feeling down and need a little snicker, google the words – “There are 2 kinds of people.” I did that yesterday, looking for an illustration with which to begin this message. But there was so much stuff, including pictures, I chose...
Oct 15, 2017 | Sunday Evening
When I was in school there were several ways to look at the timing of the Lord’s return. That Christ will return to earth in power and great glory is something which cannot be denied by anyone who reads the Bible in any literal sort of way. The most prominent...
Oct 15, 2017 | Sunday Morning
Crispus was the chief-ruler of the Corinthian synagogue. This indicates that he was an influential person in the Jewish community. He had enough respect to have been placed in the second highest office in their synagogue, just under the officiating rabbi. We might...
Oct 13, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
During the early 1700s settlers began occupying the Hopewell Valley northwest of Trenton, N.J., west of Princeton. For many years the Baptist believers in Hopewell met in the home of one of the first settlers, gladly receiving the ministry of various traveling...
Oct 12, 2017 | Wednesday
I am going to overlap our scripture for this evening with what we used two weeks ago. We looked at wisdom from a conjugal point of view – the relationship of a husband and wife. Husband “forsake her not,” “love her,” “embrace her”...
Oct 5, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1668, Benjamin Keach became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Horsleydown, London. First meeting in homes, in 1672 they built their first building. Eventually, they had a meeting house which seated over a thousand. Before becoming that famous pastor, Benjamin...
Oct 4, 2017 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Two Work Days Two photos are included in this report showing some of the work accomplished to spruce up our old building a little bit. One is a picture of the brethren standing on the new porch of the main entrance to our building. Bro. Dick...
Oct 2, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Bro. Stewart has in his employ a young man who professes to have been recently converted to Christ. Of course, none of us can judge the man’s heart, but it sounds as though he might have been converted to the Holy Spirit rather than to Christ. Because of this man,...
Oct 1, 2017 | Sunday Morning
I hope you know the dictionary definition of the word “regeneration.” It is to re-generate; it is to make something alive once again. Once again? Yes, once again. Theologically, regeneration is the operation of God whereby, the human spirit – which once...
Sep 29, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In his history of New Hampshire, William Lamson wrote: “Unquestionably the constant persecutions and repeated litigations which the Baptists were subjected in those years had much to do with retarding their growth. The standing order (the Protestant State...
Sep 28, 2017 | Wednesday
Once again, Solomon turns to the subjects of wisdom and understanding. Why does he so often instruct us about wisdom? Because, as he tells us throughout this paragraph, there is nothing of greater importance. And he is not speaking from the pedestal of the title...
Sep 25, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Mrs. Charlotte Yeoman was a member of our church in Calgary thirty-five years ago. She has remained such a family friend that Judy and I refused to visit Canada a few weeks ago without driving eight hours out of our way to spend a day with her and her husband....
Sep 24, 2017 | Sunday Morning
I ran across an appalling statistic the other day – verification of which is impossible. The author said that of the 1,440 minutes which God gives to us every day, the average Christian returns to him no more than four minutes in prayer and praise. I’m sure that all...
Sep 21, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
While in Virginia, Baptist pastor John Leland was a neighbor to James Madison. The two men often talked about the state of the nation and of the Word of God. Leland once wrote, “Government should protect every man in thinking and speaking freely, and see that...
Sep 21, 2017 | Wednesday
Let’s deliberately deviate from Solomon’s direction of thought, still keeping it mind while we move on. He is obviously telling young people to listen to their fathers – or more particularly to him. He may have been directing his thoughts toward his own children,...
Sep 17, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Let me begin this evening by giving you my outline: “Thus saith the Lord” is the Baptist’s Banner. It is the Christian’s Comfort, the Sinner’s Censure, and the Servant’s Summons. “Thus saith the Lord” ends in the Enemy’s Execution, and...
Sep 17, 2017 | Sunday Morning
Joshua chapter 2 is one of the most captivating passages in all the Word of God. It appeals to the imagination, to the heart, and to the faith of the child of God. It appeals to Christians; to Hollywood script writers; to children; to virtually everyone. There is...
Sep 14, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I have mentioned both Pastor Addison Hall and missionary Lewis Shuck recently. Brother Hall was the father of Henrietta Hall, and this lady married Brother Shuck. On this day in 1835, while still a teenager, Henrietta and her husband stepped on board the deck of a...
Sep 14, 2017 | Wednesday
When we got to Lloydminster, Saskatchewan last Tuesday, the Yeoman’s put us up in a beautiful hotel. As Judy was taking a shower, I turned on the television and watched an interesting documentary. It was about mud and landslides, beginning with the Oso, Washington...
Sep 11, 2017 | Sunday Evening
I read of a man who was in town on business; it was going to take about ten days. As he was walking his hotel after dinner one evening he noticed a sign which read “Chinese Laundry.” By that time he had plenty of dirty clothes, so he made a note of the...
Sep 10, 2017 | Sunday Morning
Paul and Barnabas had traveled to the city of Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath day they peacefully entered into the synagogue and sat down. After the proscribed reading of the law and prophets, they were asked whether or not they would like to exhort the...
Sep 9, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I mentioned the Northern Neck of Virginia last week. It was there that Addison Hall was born in 1779. Six years earlier so was Lewis Lunsford. Lunsford was eventually saved by God’s grace and became a Baptist preacher. When the Lord began to bless, and Lunsford was...
Aug 28, 2017 | Sunday Evening
John the Baptist gives us and example to use for a study of humility. The Lord hates pride and loves humility. The Lord loved John. We all need to be more humble than we are, but it needs to be a Biblically-governed humility. It needs to come from within us, from the...
Aug 27, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Northern Neck of Virginia, laying between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers, was the home of George Washington, James Madison, John Monroe, and Robert E. Lee. It was also where Addison Hall was born on this day (September 3) in 1779. After serving in the War...
Aug 27, 2017 | Sunday Morning
It is not a pretty thought, but there is a good likelihood that some day your home is going to be burglarized. It is very likely that one day you will come home and find a window pried open or door latch broken. You may then find things missing – gone – just like some...
Aug 24, 2017 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Opportunities to Serve July has been an extra busy month for us because of the following opportunities to serve the Lord! On Thursday, the sixth of July, Bro. Austin Fulton was ordained into the full gospel ministry by Victory Baptist Church...
Aug 24, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
James Armstrong was orphaned when his father and mother, along with 22 others, were massacred by Indians while worshiping the Lord in a church service. When the boy was taken in by the local Presbyterian rector, we aren’t surprised to learn that he was raised to...
Aug 24, 2017 | Wednesday
“The New England Primer,” was published in Boston in the 1680s or 90s. It was one of the earliest books in this country which mothers used to teach their children to read. It was filled with Bible verses from the KJV and with theology – both good and bad....
Aug 21, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Years ago there was a Christian young man, 14-yrs-old, who had landed his first real job. He was a helper in a hardware store which was owned by his uncle. One day a customer came in and ordered a couple of pounds of nails, and Billy was sent to help the man. Into the...
